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Umfang: x, 356 p.

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-282-16053-2 , 9786612160530 , 90-272-9562-X

Serie: Dialogues on work and innovation, v. 15

Inhalt: The past is an increasingly unreliable guide to the future. European workplaces and the regions in which they are located face unprecedented pressures and challenges. Whereas in recent decades incremental adaptation has largely been sufficient to cope with external change, it is no longer clear that this remains the case. Globalisation, technological development and dissemination, political volatility, patterns of consumption, and employee expectations are occurring at a rate which is hard to measure. The rate of change in these spheres is far outstripping the rate of organisational innovation in both European enterprises and public governance, leading to a serious mismatch between the challenges of the 21st Century and the organisational competence available to deal with them. In this context, there is no clear roadmap. The contributors to this volume address these issues and demonstrate that building the knowledge base required by actors in this volatile environment requires continuous dialogue and learning - a context in which social partners, regional policy makers and other participants share diverse knowledge and reflect on experience rather than seeking and imitating any notion of 'best practice'. Action Research has a crucial role to play, embedding shared learning within the process of innovation.

Anmerkung: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Action Research in Workplace Innovation and Regional Development -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Regional innovation in the global economy -- Action research in the context of regional development -- A framework for the renewal of workplaces and regions -- Building regional competence -- Notes -- I. Key themes -- Participation and local organisation -- Introduction -- Innovative organisation -- Participation and the challenges of industrialisation -- The agreement on development -- The first decade: Scattered discourses -- The next initiative: Industry programmes -- The emergence of smaller networks -- Conversational networks and the use of research -- Diffusing the idea of networking -- The formation of regional partnerships -- Organisational challenges -- a. The work group -- b. The network -- c. The network-generating context -- Regions and governance -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Workplace innovation as regional development -- Introduction -- The high road of workplace innovation -- Arenas of organisational change -- Beyond `best practice' -- A model for interpretation -- The characteristics of new forms of work organisation -- Knowledge, innovation and creativity -- Workplace partnership, involvement and participation -- Job design and teamworking -- Integrating teamwork, partnership and organisational knowledge -- Resourcing and sustaining organisational innovation -- Public policy measures and workplace innovation -- Regions as a focus for workplace innovation -- Gaps in the public policy framework -- Challenges -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- II. Building coalitions -- Participation and enterprise networks within a regional context -- Introduction -- The network partners. , From informal to formal networking and the network as a ``quasi-enterprise'' -- Employee participation -- Networking between enterprises -- Diffusion -- The role of research -- References -- Planning from without or developing from within? -- Introduction -- The background to change in the health care sector -- The project -- History and duration -- Research collaboration -- Project funding -- The vision and process of patient involvement -- Project vision: Health care from an innovation perspective -- The role of action research -- The organisation of the development coalition -- The first dialogue conference -- Developmental activities in the learning networks -- Concluding reflections -- Note -- References -- The development of the French technopoles and the growth of life sciences -- Innovation, a motor of the contemporary economy -- From the American science parks to the technopoles -- The loss of the technological autonomy of companies -- The main ingredients in the fabric of the technopole -- The Evry Génopole, a French avant-garde model of technopole -- A governmental project -- The biotechnology network -- A new conception of scientific work -- New collaborative relations between partners whose interests sometimes diverge -- Fundamental public research, the central issue for the State -- Génoplante, an ambitious political project -- The end of the classical research paradigm -- The researcher-entrepreneur as a point of linkage between the private sector and the public sector -- Genopole and employment -- Start-ups, the typical companies on the site -- Activity orientated particularly towards the outside world -- A hybrid model -- Notes -- III. Capacity building -- The third task -- The significance of dynamic local and regional settings -- An illustrative case, the biotec cluster of Uppsala -- The third task as a set of means. , The scholar's exemption -- Academic entrepreneurship and commercialisation of scientific ideas -- Industrial research institutes and the so-called CONNECT -- Science parks -- Offices of collaboration -- The third task as interactive knowledge formation -- Action learning -- Action research -- Criticism of action research -- Conclusions -- References -- Linking workplace innovation and regional development -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Regions as focal points for innovation -- 3. The workplace as a site of innovation -- Problems of innovation -- The limitations of consultancy -- 4. Companies within their regional context -- Networking as public policy -- 5. Towards the stakeholder university -- Resourcing regional innovation -- Constraints -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Obstacles to organisational learning in Trade Unions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Regional and national policy development -- 3. Internal dynamics and union competence development -- 4. Analysis -- Building up internal union networks -- Developing and using external networks -- Competences of regional union officers -- Notes -- References -- Globalisation and regionalisation -- 1. Theoretical premises, method, empirical basis -- 2. Origin and structure of regional networks -- 3. Globalisation, economic development and cluster formation - An inter-regional comparison -- 3.1. Regional development aid in practice -- 3.2. Limitations of regional economic development aid -- 3.3. Regional economic development aid and the role of the Trade Unions -- 4. Radical structural change, employment relations and the Trade Unions' representation crisis -- 5. What are social scientists able to achieve? -- References -- Moving beyond rhetoric -- A dramatic change in the workplace? -- Why does the curtain come down early on change processes? -- Theatre as metaphor: Performing a script or writing the play?. , Theatre for organisational transformation -- Forum theatre -- Improvisation - The organisation's `instant coffee' for idea generation? -- From actor to film-maker - Other methods of stimulating dialogue and change -- Performing regions? -- Some conclusions on the application of creative methods -- Notes -- References -- IV. The policy framework -- Regional workplace forums for the modernisation of work -- Introduction -- Initiatives -- The lack of capacity -- a. Limited awareness amongst policy makers and social partners -- b. Too few opportunities to share good policy practice between member states -- c. Weak policy frameworks at national and/or regional levels -- d. A lack of appropriate institutions capable of designing and delivering appropriate measures -- e. Poor networking between key actors -- f. Underdeveloped roles and responsibilities of social partners, universities and business support organisations -- The missing link -- Identifying gaps -- a. The UK -- b. France -- c. Other member states -- Recommendations -- a. Raising the profile of the European Employment Strategy -- b. New forms of work organisation -- c. Diffusion mechanisms -- d. Regional workplace forums -- Appendices -- Annotated bibliography -- References -- Integrating workplace development policy and innovation policy: A challenging task -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Comparison of the FWDP and Finnish innovation policy -- 2.1. Finnish Workplace Development Programme (FWDP) -- 2.2. Finnish innovation policy in the 1990s -- 2.3. Pursued innovation -- 2.4. Innovation policy approach -- 2.5. Innovation strategies -- 3. From project-level learning to learning networks -- 4. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- The UK Work Organisation Network -- Introduction: The legacy -- New beginnings -- Towards an eventual national policy framework? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index. , The series DIALOGUES ON WORK AND INNOVATION. , English

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Sprache: Englisch